Sun 1 March 2015 | 10:00AM - 3:30PM |
Orchid Festival 2015: the pollinators are coming... Enjoy the Glasshouse Range transformed for this year's Orchid Festival from Saturday 7 February – Sunday 22 March 2015 and discover some unique plant and pollinator relationships. |
10:00AM - 4:45PM |
Mathematics: be a mathematician for a day Join us to work on some of our favourite mathematical problems, and discover that everyone can think mathematically – and then take the activities home to share with family and friends. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Rowena Comrie Rowena Comrie’s art is concerned with confronting the contemporary sublime using specific metaphors to express this concept. Previously she has taken flight as her subject, creating a major body of work. |
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11:15AM - 12:15PM |
Hulsean Sermon on Intelligibility and Coherence: The Christian Vision of Reality |
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11:30AM - 5:00PM |
The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Circuit curates: Gaudier-Brzeska The Circuit group are curating a display in Helen’s bedroom in Kettle’s Yard that explores the artist’s fascination with birds. The display includes sculptures, ink drawings and sketchbooks. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Modern heroism: printmaking and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte An exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Highlights of the exhibition include prints by Charlet and Raffet, who contributed to Napoleon’s heroic legacy through glorifying war and military personnel; works by Delacroix and Gericault that respond to the drama and tragedy of the period; and satirical prints by Daumier. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Moonstrips: Eduardo Paolozzi and the printed collage 1965-72 Eduardo Paolozzi’s use of found images and words cut from popular magazines and scientific journals played a formative role in the development of British art in the 1950s and 60s. He adapted the technique of collage to printed media in spectacular sets – often seen as highlights of Pop Art. |
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6:00PM - 6:25PM |
To be performed by Peter Dyke (Assistant Director of Music, Hereford Cathedral) |